Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The approach used by Watts and Quimby does not have these problems , however , it encourages the subject to focus on the external environment in order to answer the question , moreover it makes the assumption that subjective risk is determined only by the chances of a near miss , it may clearly relate to other factors as well ( e.g. severity of consequences in an actual accident , presence of a police car , unpredictability of pedestrians ) . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ It encourages the children to go and talk to their grandparents and great-grandparents and other old people about their days at school . |
| 3 | Demonstrative reference is clearly an important aspect of the deixis of the poem : it encourages the reader to process the deictic meanings in a specific way . |
| 4 | When a fish depends heavily on electricity or water movements to respond to its environment , we visualise it using the stimulus to form an image or picture of its surroundings . |
| 5 | It denotes an attempt to unify society through ‘ corporations ’ , each of which has a monopoly on the representation of particular categories of workers , professions and business ( capital ) . |
| 6 | It revealed an inability to compromise which remained unaltered after the fall of the Government in August . |
| 7 | This facilitates the smooth running of government and must be advantageous to those in government as it minimises the need to effect formal changes , a task which is time-consuming and may be beset with difficulties . |
| 8 | Although the SPD agreed with the bill 's intention and much of its detail , it used its majority in the Bundesrat to reject the bill because it empowered the government to use telephone-tapping and mail-interception to gather evidence of illegal arms sales . |
| 9 | It requested the Secretary-General to convene a UN-sponsored international conference on this issue . |
| 10 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 11 | It concerned the plot to overthrow his brother and form a new dictatorship ; but he had discovered another side to the story , a sinister angle that would make international headlines if it were ever made public . |
| 12 | It asked the officers to reflect on the discussions which led up to , and followed the issue of , Partnership in Validation , and subsequently accepted the advice offered in an officers ' paper to set up a working party to pursue the discussion further and report back in May 1978 , after consulting the Council 's committees and boards . |
| 13 | It asked the participants to stop haggling in public and permitted each bishop to take a decision either way for his own diocese ( Murphy 1959 ) . |
| 14 | It is an omission because it represents a failure to continue treatment . |
| 15 | And for me , it represents an opportunity to complete the kind of Freud-Darwin synthesis I 've been working on really , for the last ten years , and it kind of represents the completion of the synthesis , as it were now completely merged in my mind into a single , the single kind of entity that I , I know call psychoanalytic . |
| 16 | The challenge of AIDS involves more than individual sexual behaviour : it represents an opportunity to work through our commonest societal fears–and taboos , to reach new understanding and evolve compassionate action . |
| 17 | It represents an attempt to solve the problem by logic-chopping . |
| 18 | By practising the skill we show the subconscious what is involved and allow it to acquire the ability to master the skill . |
| 19 | But envy is an ambivalent structure of feeling ; it involves the desire to possess certain idealized attributes of the Other and the desire to destroy them because they signify what is felt to be lacking . |
| 20 | A typical objection against it might be that it involves an attempt to settle a metaphysical issue without first clarifying the conditions under which such an issue can be meaningfully discussed . |
| 21 | Within the industry it became a commonplace to point out that the discovery of ‘ a Libya a year ’ would be required to maintain the depletion horizon . |
| 22 | He lifted a sock from the floor and pushed it into her mouth , then held a silk blouse out by its cuffs and spun it until it became a rope to hold the gag secure . |
| 23 | Under subsections 3(1) and ( 2 ) , it became a crime to procure women by threat or by false pretences to have sexual intercourse in any part of the world . |
| 24 | It became a joke to ply him with half-pints of beer and fantasies about each other 's unfitness for battle . |
| 25 | It became a pattern to work in Paris after a season or two in England but if a replacement was urgently needed , any dancer who caught her attention was likely to be shipped abroad . |
| 26 | Under a recent amendment to the Wildlife and Countryside Act ( 1981 ) it became an offence to kill or injure adders — this is in addition to previous legislation prohibiting the sale of adders . |
| 27 | Under the new law those found guilty of racial discrimination or incitement to racial hatred or violence would face heavier fines , imprisonment and could be declared ineligible for public office ; it became an offence to contest the existence of Nazi concentration camps , gas chambers and other evidence of crimes against humanity committed during the Second World War . |
| 28 | It became an effort to communicate and therefore problems were not talked through . |
| 29 | As the technical programmes evolved , they gave rise to commercial activities — such as selling fuel elements and graphite to the civil power stations — and as these matured it became the practice to spin them off as separate entities or to transfer the technology and the responsibility to commercial organisations . |
| 30 | In the early 1970s it became the practice to tell the press what had happened and whether any votes were taken . |